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Which is not to say these are worlds I want to live in, but I'd be interested in visiting them.

The world where the Wachowski brothers directed the Star Wars prequels
The world where Al Gore carried Tennessee and won the election in 2000.
The world where John McCain was president on September 11th.
The world where Rudy Giuliani ran against Hillary Clinton in 2008.
The world where Rush is number one band in the world.
The world where Rob Liefeld's Youngblood is hottest comic on the stands.
The world where Max Headroom ran for 10 seasons.
The world where Hitler was killed in World War I.
The world where I stayed in Japan in 1999.
The world where Bush listened to his advisers and went into Iraq with enough force and a plan for reconstruction.
The world where Jimmy Carter was re-elected in 1980.
The world where I was never born.
The world where Peter Jackson's Dune Trilogy was the top-grossing movies of 2001-2003.
The world where GW never got the LotR license and invested that energy into 40k and fantasy.
The world where Twin Peaks had a 3rd season.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:The world where Rob Liefeld's Youngblood is hottest comic on the stands.

KK, I lived in that world for a few months, and it totally sucked taint.

I liked quite a few of yours (McCain as prez in 2001, W Brothers on the prequels). I'll share some later.

The world where the Wachowski brothers directed the Star Wars prequels

So I take it you thought the wooden acting in the prequels would have been enhanced with some grade school level philosophic tripe?

The Simpsons alternate universe that Homer visits in one of the Treehouse of Horrors episodes - the one where it rains donuts.

ShumaGorath wrote:

The world where the Wachowski brothers directed the Star Wars prequels

So I take it you thought the wooden acting in the prequels would have been enhanced with some grade school level philosophic tripe?

I thought it already was.

I would like to visit the alternative universe of Brighthammer 40K.

More seriously, I would like to move to and stay in the universe in which I exchanged all my £ to Yen in July 2008.

the world where strings grow on trees

the world where strings grow on trees

Where John Lennon survived.

One similar to Sleeper, in that chocolate cake, beer etc etc is actually good for you rather than health foods.

ShumaGorath wrote:So I take it you thought the wooden acting in the prequels would have been enhanced with some grade school level philosophic tripe?

I'll take grade school level philosophic tripe over a toy commercial any day of the week. And the W Brothers are visually miles ahead of GL at this point. And part of directing is, you know, shot selection and camera placement and all that. And directing actors, something GL hasn't done effectively since the 1970's.

For movies:
I'd like to visit the world where Michael Mann adapted Gates of Fire, not Zack Snyder/300.
I'd like to visit the world where Jim Cameron directed Spider-Man and Godzilla, two projects he was interested in during the mid-90's.

For society (my country in particular):
I'd LOVE to visit the world where Abraham Lincoln serves his second term and begins actual reconstruction and reconciliation with the South after the Civil War.

ShumaGorath wrote:

The world where the Wachowski brothers directed the Star Wars prequels

So I take it you thought the wooden acting in the prequels would have been enhanced with some grade school level philosophic tripe?

That would make it any better than the pile of reeking crap that was the Matrix how?

I'd just like one where all the voices quit telling me to do things. Oh wait, that was out loud...

And of course one where you dern kids stayed the off my lawn!

The world where Firefly wasn't killed off by Fox...

The world in which a responsible government doesn't turn its back while a bunch of greedy bankers decide that basing investment derivatives on the mortgages of bad credit risks is the key to huge profits.

Come to think of it, a world where Governments are required to spend only as much as they take in.

Redbeard wrote:

The world in which a responsible government doesn't turn its back while a bunch of greedy bankers decide that basing investment derivatives on the mortgages of bad credit risks is the key to huge profits.

Hey! you bought 'em!

I want to live in the parallel world where H.B.M.C. runs GW.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:The world where the Wachowski brothers directed the Star Wars prequels

How about the world where the Star Wars prequels didn't exist.

Or a few persoanl ones...

the world where the technological level never advanced and we're all still cavemen.
the world where i'm a hobbit live in a hole don't care for much else other than complaining and getting intoxicated.

Frazzled wrote:I'd just like one where all the voices quit telling me to do things. Oh wait, that was out loud...

...

That's something all married men have to come to terms with. There is no escape in any universe.

the world where silence is replace by "Surfin' Bird"

A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird
B-b-b-bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a don't you know about the bird?
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word!

M_Stress wrote:the world where silence is replace by "Surfin' Bird"

A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird
B-b-b-bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a don't you know about the bird?
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word!

ACH!!, I just had a "Pink Flamingo" flashback ....I'd like to visit the world were that movie was never made.

I would like to live in a world where the guy in Baghdad who discovered electricity 2,000 years ago developed it beyond a curiosity, Da Vinci found an apprentice who was interested in practical mechanics more than fanciful drawings of things that might work and the Vikings continued their exploration of north America farther south than Iceland.

The world in which Jimi Hendrix didn't die, and continued to influence music as we know it.

That would be a nice place to be.

Chrysaor686 wrote:The world in which Jimi Hendrix didn't die, and continued to influence music as we know it.

That would be a nice place to be.

Randy Rhoads and Cliff Burton too..

I'd like a world where GW took advice from its fans, and was run by Dakka Dakka's community.

I'd like to visit a world where Marcel Duchamp never quit making art.
I'd like to visit a world where Mao Tse-Tung brushed his teeth.
I'd like to visit a world where my favorite alternative newspaper hadn't fired their editor leading to their best columnists walking out.
I'd like to visit a world where Native Americans were tolerant to small pox.
I'd like to visit a world where my apartment wasn't fifty feet from a train station.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:The world where GW never got the LotR license and invested that energy into 40k and fantasy.

Lets see 40K and WFB wouldn't have even have the cool new plastics they have now because there wouldn't have been such a large influx of cash.

There wouldn't be as many people in the hobby as LotR attracted massive amounts of new blood to the hobby GW this decade.

My faith in GW to put out a core game that was actually balanced and also wasn't bogged down with a ludicrous amount of supplements and special rules would never have been resurrected.

The only good side about no LotR would be that we wouldn't have to put with the thousands of whining fanboys trying desperately to attack what is arguably the best of GW's 3 core games. Incidentally LotR is set to get even bigger when WotR comes out. I've read the book and to me it looks far cleaner and enjoyablethan either 40k of WFB. It reminds me allot of Warmaster. In fact It would surprise me if it became a serious rival to WFB.

But hey, why let facts get in the way of your ill informed cheap shot.

LuciusAR wrote:But hey, why let facts get in the way of your ill informed cheap shot.

Um yeah, I'll uh keep that in mind when I invent my multiverse traveling skateboard and have to choose destinations

Anyway where was I?

The world where the Beatles stayed together and produced new albums into the mid-90s. But not after, that would just be too embarassing.
The world where a group of would-be hijackers were rounded up by the FBI in July of 2001.
The world where AIDS was cured in 1986.
The world where pandemic avian influenza appeared in 2005.
The world where the Soviet Union/Warsaw pact never collapsed.
The world where I'm the 40k overfiend.
The world where the Japanese surrendered before the Soviet Union declared war on them (WWII).
The world where World War I never happened.
The world where Japan continued to grow at 10% a year and is not the world's largest economy.
The world where the African economy roared while East Asia became an impoverished backwater.
The world where Star Wars was a flop but Battlestar Galactica became the science fiction show that defined a generation.
The world where the internet never caught on.

Well I figure we're not talking worlds where disease doesn't exist, dictatorships, and wars didn't exist (aka this is a non-serious thread).

A world the most popular show is "Politician Cage Fighting."

Mosquitoes catch a species specific form of Ebola and die off utterly. same for fleas, ticks, and politicians (all parasites?).

Trial by combat is still acceptable means of settling disputes between parties, but only time honored Southern style.

A world where its illegal to make movie theater popcorn without using coconut oil.

A world where terrorists don't meet up with 72 virgins, but, to quote Robin Williams "THATS 72 VIRGINIANS!!! you ASS!"

A world where Enso Ferrari moved to America and then started his car business. he brought his friends Ducati, and Bugatti along as well.

A world where all women had hot Italian/French accents.

Frazzled wrote:A world where Enso Ferrari moved to America and then started his car business. he brought his friends Ducati, and Bugatti along as well.

lol How on earth is that a world worth living in? Aren't their cars/bikes better for not being american?

Don't make me pull this car over Whatwhat. I'll do it!

(if you don't know what this means you never had a marine for a parent).

"We don't have anyone here who welds that badly." Some guy at McClaren discussing his competitor, Ferrari.